Amniote phylogeny and the position of turtles

The position of turtles among amniotes remains in dispute, with morphological and molecular comparisons giving different results. Morphological analyses align turtles with either lizards and their relatives, or at the base of the reptile tree, whereas molecular analyses, including a recent study by...

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Autor principal: Hedges, S Blair
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22839753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-64
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description The position of turtles among amniotes remains in dispute, with morphological and molecular comparisons giving different results. Morphological analyses align turtles with either lizards and their relatives, or at the base of the reptile tree, whereas molecular analyses, including a recent study by Chiari et al. in BMC Biology, place turtles with birds and crocodilians. Molecular studies have not wavered as the numbers of genes and species have increased, but morphologists have been reluctant to embrace the molecular tree. Please see Research article www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/10/65
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spelling pubmed-34069422012-07-28 Amniote phylogeny and the position of turtles Hedges, S Blair BMC Biol Commentary The position of turtles among amniotes remains in dispute, with morphological and molecular comparisons giving different results. Morphological analyses align turtles with either lizards and their relatives, or at the base of the reptile tree, whereas molecular analyses, including a recent study by Chiari et al. in BMC Biology, place turtles with birds and crocodilians. Molecular studies have not wavered as the numbers of genes and species have increased, but morphologists have been reluctant to embrace the molecular tree. Please see Research article www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/10/65 BioMed Central 2012-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3406942/ /pubmed/22839753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-64 Text en Copyright ©2012 Hedges; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406942/
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